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| Hiking | 9.19 Miles |
2,050 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.19 Miles | 5 Hrs 30 Mns | | 1.67 mph |
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| no partners | | I hiked this in conjunction with Red Hill. Stats are for both peaks combined here.
See my trip report for Red Hill for the first half of this hike.
From the saddle Northwest of Red Hill, it's about 2.25 miles to get to the summit of Guajalote peak. From the saddle, continue on the road leading up. The elevation at the saddle is 5670 feet and the peak is at 6490, so it's roughly only 800 feet of gain. Short after the saddle going up there are a few steep sections of road for about the next 1,000 feet. You'll see a rocky high point that you'll pass to the left side of. Then, the road flattens out for a while.
At roughly 1.1 miles past the Red Hill saddle you'll see a gate with a sign that reads:
Private Property
No Trespassing
By Off-Road Vehicles
No Outlet
This implies that the owner allows hikers and foot traffic to pass by. THANK YOU to the owners for allowing this! I walked around the gate, but I soon realized it wasn't necessary. There's another road leading to the right of the gate which can be taken also because the ridgeline going to Guajalote is further to the North, while the private property is to the West. I'm not sure where the actual border of the private property is, but you'll be basically going around most of the private property by taking the road going North.
At roughly 3.6 miles, at this location 31.413282, -110.742357 , there is a road leading West. This road is marked FSR 4697. Follow this road and you will see that it fades out after a few hundred feet. From here, you'll need to hike North and then West to get onto the middle of the ridgeline. From this point, I believe it's just under 1 mile to the summit. I followed the ridgeline up and only saw a few cairns in a few tricky areas. There were some steep areas but it seemed possible to zig-zag and walk around some of these steep areas. At times I was walking in what looked like a small gulch area and there were some larger rock slabs at one point. There were areas with 2-3 foot grass that I had to walk through. Be careful of any loose rocks mixed in with the grass. I just took my time and eventually I was near the summit. I walked to all 3 high points sort of by accident. The actual high point was furthest to the West.
At the summit, I found a registry under a rock pile. I also found 2 US survey markers with arrows pointing to the high point, but didn't see the "official" US survey marker. There were some nice views looking West and looking North I could see some of the high points in the Patagonias and North of that I could see the Santa Rita, especially the 2 high points - Mt Wrightson and Mt Hopkins.
I followed the ridgeline down in general the same way I went up and found some of the same cairns on the way down but didn't see any other cairns along the ridgeline. Eventually I walked into the road and from there I just followed the road down to the bottom.
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Distance (round trip) = 9.19 miles
AEG = 2,050 feet
Strava moving time = 4 hrs 37 mins
Strava elapsed time = 6 hrs 39 mins |
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